The accused was charged with theft over $5,000 on November 7, 2011, and robbery on December 2, 2011.
At the preliminary hearing, the Crown sought to establish the accused's identity as the perpetrator through a combination of eyewitness testimony identifying distinctive tattoos, surveillance video evidence, officer identification from video stills compared to mug shots, in-dock identification, fingerprint evidence, and circumstantial evidence linking the accused to rental vehicles used in the crimes.
The defence challenged the reliability of the identification evidence, particularly the in-dock identification and the chain of custody for surveillance video.
The justice determined that sufficient evidence existed to commit the accused to stand trial on both charges.
